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"Keys to Research" Tenure Track Faculty Research and Professional Development Program

The Tenure Track Faculty Research and Professional Development Program at UTRGV was established as a training course by the Division of Research, Graduate Studies & New Program Development in 2019. This activity will provide nine, three-hour workshops for tenure track faculty to build capacity for developing high impact research projects, peer review publications, and highly competitive research grant proposals, as well as to promote a culture of research compliance and ethical behavior.

Participants will receive a certificate and a $500 research award upon successful completion of the training program (attending 8 out of 9 workshops).

Interested and eligible faculty may still attend by RSVP'ing for the workshops; however, attendance at 8 out of 9 workshops is mandatory in order to receive the incentives regardless of when one started attending.

Eligibility: Participant must hold a tenure track faculty position at UTRGV. By special request from the Dean's office, the Division of Research may set additional eligibility requirements.

Individual Faculty research efforts will be enhanced by the following topics:

Identifying appropriate Federal and State agencies and private sources for funding;

Identifying Intellectual Merit and Broad Impacts of research;

Guidance in proposal writing for specific federal agencies and programs;

Enhancing scholarly publication activity and presentations;

Managing external sources of funding for purchasing, travel, equipment, and student employees with support of Office of Sponsored Programs;

Research ethics and compliance training on policies and procedures including mentor/mentee relationships, authorship and peer review, specific regulations governing a type of research (e.g., research with human subjects and animals), intellectual property management, conflicts of interest, time & effort reporting, and export controls.